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Quelibroleo - Descubre tu próxima lectura - Red social de libros
Haruki Murakami
Happy Birthday, John Steinbeck!
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires" - John Steinbeck
Pearl S. Buck
Pearl Buck (1892-1973), writer, civil rights activist, winner 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born Hillsboro, West Virginia to missionary parents. Taken to China at 3 months old. Graduated Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, VA, Phi Beta Kappa, 1914. Masters from Cornell University in 1925. In 1949, outraged that existing adoption services considered Asian and mixed-race children unadoptable, Buck established Welcome House, Inc., the first international, interracial adoption agency.
Få The Possessed (the Devils) - The Original Classic Edition af Fyodor Dostoyevsky som Paperback bog på engelsk
The Possessed (The Devils) - The Original Classic Edition af Fjodor Dostojevskij, ISBN 9781486147489
Få Crime and Punishment (Qualitas Classics) af Fyodor Dostoyevsky som Paperback bog på engelsk
Crime and Punishment (Qualitas Classics) af Fjodor Dostojevskij, ISBN 9781897093672
Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky by Perov, Vasily (Russian, 1834-1882) Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.